MontaVista® Software, LLC, today announced dynamically configurable data plane capabilities in the MontaVista Bare Metal Engine™, offering a single development environment that dynamically scales from the high performance services of Embedded Linux to dedicated near zero overhead bare metal environments for packet processing. MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine, or BME, enables network equipment providers to use a single Linux development environment and tool suite without sacrificing the performance formerly only achieved from an application running on a semiconductor’s executive.